News from Pulse: Fytte the First
Tivoli Pulse in Las Vegas now has a much wider focus than just Tivoli Operations tools - I met a lot of friends from Rational there. Some interesting news and announcements this year.
If I haven’t heard of it it’s probably NoSQL!
It's all too easy to think that all noSQL vendors fall into the same camp. MarkLogic is a notable exception.
Some thoughts on Avnet’s new Cloud in a Box
Cloud is coming but it can make people nervous. A development and testing appliance may be a good way to get it started.
Big Data, Integration and Governance Conference
Learn how to get more value from the volume, variety and velocity of information and how to take control of an ever-growing supply of data
The DMTF’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) - a new cloud infrastructure management standard
An open standard for managing IaaS is necessary to deliver effective interoperability for cloud services.
Federating Big Data
Cirro has introduced a data federation solution designed for big data. It could give the established vendors a run for their money.
HPCC: a Hadoop competitor or a data warehouse in its own right?
HPCC from Lexis Nexis looks like a better alternative to Hadoop
Cloud by Default: A Business Imperative - Developing Applications that can be used anywhere
This event suggests that all developments should be made using service-oriented architectures and architected so they can run on Cloud platforms.
Another choice for Hadoop
RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.
Continuous Business Intelligence and Big Data - Using CEP for real-time continuous queries
There are a lot of start-ups trying to link CEP to Big Data but it is likely that the major vendors will push them out of the way.